Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-04-21
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.

A BILL making an appropriation OF S227, 900 for
the use and maintenance OF the State University
was favorably reported to the Senate by the FL
nance Committee ON the Sth instant. The fol-
lowing bills were passed To authorize the trus-
tees OF the Michigan Insane Asylum TO deed TO
the city OF Kalamazoo certain lands for street
purposes. The bill to amend. the charter
OF the city OF Grand Rapids was tabled.
The House passed tho bills establishing the
death penalty by hanging for the crime OF muir
der in the first degree and amending the divorce
laws. A two years residence is made n neces-
sary preliminary to an application for divorce
and no testimony Is to be taken until six
months after an application has been made,
unless 1t is necessary to present evidence
Oaths are prescribed and certain lines of in
vestigation are laid down TO be followed to pre-
vent eollusion between parties etc. Where
ing attorney is directed to appear in behalf
of the county. Tho defendant, when n
divorce IL granted for certain specified cause
is not allowed to marry again for the space Of
two years The following bills were also passed
by the House: To provide for a stenographer
for the Sixth Judicial Circuit also one for the
Nineteenth; to provide q general law for the
formation Of corporations to carry on printing
publishing and book-making; to amend tho
pensat'on of Aldermen and defining their pow
ers and duties. Mr. Damon's Joint resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment exclud-
ing from the privilege of franchise those who
can't read and write in the English language
after 1890 was lost by vote CT AZ to 3l
Both houses OF the Legislature were constant
ly in committee OF the whole on tho 9th inst
The House considered many bills. The liveliest
time OF the session occurred between Messrs.
Runsey and Jones, OF the Ways and Means Com
mittee, and half dozen members, who claimed
that the committee and Representatives and
members from towns where State institutions
are located had combined to secure tracts OF
land for each institution The immediate cause
OF the charge was IN item OF 5000 in the
Flint Deaf and Dumb School appropriation
bill for tho purchase of an addition to tho school
farm. 1ne charge indiQnantlV nanial and
the item was left in the bill, which was agreed
to by the committee Of the whole. The bill
appropriated Sl2G, 900 for two years. The House
passed the bill authorizing all courts of criminal
jurisdiction to sentence persons convicted of
anycrime to the Detroit House Of Correction
instead of the State Prison. A resolution
offered for n searching investigation of the Cold
water State Public School scandal, was defeated.
Bills rencorporating Bay City and West Bay
the rules. The Senate paseed aeFeral iqrel bills,
and disposed Of q good many< All h|Ila IN com.
ftee of the whole. u
nn Hennse aid NJ tesihess Of Importance.
sept ~ eoaainittee Of the whole, ON the 1lth
st 1t was an uneventful day in both branch.
", The House did not have an effective work
Ing majority. and no bills were passed. The
hill making an appropriation of Sl54,OOO for the
Michigan Soldiers Home passed the committee
'of the whole. Also, the bill regulating the
practice of medicine and surgery, the object of
the bill being to limit the practice closer to the
regulars, and shut out the quacks.
AMONG the bills passed by the Senate on the
18th inst was one providing for an Assistant
Auditor General Also one protecting an elector
who can not read from fraud and deception at the
polls, which reads as follows: ANY person
who shall furnish an elector who cannot read
with ticket informing him that it contains
names different from those which are written
or printed thereon, with intent to induce him
to vote contrary to his inclination, or who shall
fraudulently or deceiuully change the ballot
of any elector, by which such elector shall be
prevented from voting for such candidate or
candidates as he intended, shall be deemed
guilty of misdomeanor. and upon conviction
thereof be fined in a sum not exceeding 500, or
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding
ninety days, or both fine and imprisonment, in
the discretion of the court" They also con-
CURED in the House resolution ordering the
Secretary of State to cause one thousand copies
Of the public acts Of 1888 to be reprinted for sale
and distribution. They killed the bill
providing thst in districts where more than one
Represent atve in the state Legislature was to be
chosen each qualified voter might cast as many
votes for any one candidate as there were candi-
dates, if he so desired. Bills passed the House
so amending the laws relating to justices of the
peace that their compensation OF 50 per diem
will begin soon as defendant Is arraigned
In court. Also one obliging railroad companies
receiving or transporting grain to deliver
the same to any consignee or to any elevator
or public warehouse to which it may be con-
signed, for reasonable compensation, making
releases thereon void but providing that there
must be public track to such point of con5ign-
ment, and forcing all railroad companies to
permit connections to be made to their tracks,
so that such grain may be carried to such con-
signor, elevator. warehouse. After q pro-
tracted debate the House killed the bill giving
women the right to vote ON municipal ques-
tions, by vote of 33 yeas to so nays.
SENATOR SEYMoUR's bill providing for a pris-
on of infamy was discussed in the Senate on
the 18th inst, and placed upon the general
order. The Senate passed the following bills
House bill to authorize the city of Menominee
N iOin with Wisconsin autlOrities I'm cOnatrnct-
ing bridge across tho Menominee River; to
provide for the oedng to the United States ex-
elusive jurisdiction over q site for Government
school house in Baraga County. The Senate re-
fused to concur in the House resolution to in
vestigate the charges against the management
OF the State Public School at Coldwater The
House of Representatives passed a bill to in
corporate the village of Hancock, in Honghton
County. Mr.. Manlys bill for uniformity Of
during the remainder of the morning, and con-
tinued in the afternoon session. Mr.. Manly
made long speech in favor, but it was lost by
a vote OF 40 TO 3j The vote was reconsidered
follows; To amend the drain laws (;
the Senate bill to provide for ceding
over certain lands In Baraga County, to be
used as a site for Government school-house
for education of Indians; to make appropria-
tion for the Michigan soldiers Home for 1887 . /;
to change the name OF Edwin Chapman to Ed
win Brown; to provide sots Of Supreme Court
reports for use in the Probate Courts in the
State; to provide for the garnishment of execu-
tors and administrators to secure to minority
stockholders right OF representation upon
boards of directors to regulate the practice OF
medicine and prevent quackery.
THE much talked OF Grand RAPIDS charter
bill passed the Senate on the DMk, by a
vote Of % to G, after a long esS but
with more amendmer
bone OF contSI1